Colgate University Athletics

BEFORE COLGATE: Trauth is a one-year varsity letterwinner for Naperville North of the DuPage Valley Conference ... She helped lead the Huskies to the IHSA Regional Championship as a senior ... The Huskies also took second in the DuPage Valley Conference and first-place in the Lake Park Invitational her senior season ... She earned special mention all-conference honors in 2006 and was named to the DuPage Valley Conference all-Academic team for 2006-07 ... During her freshman and sophomore seasons she helped the freshman and JV squads to a combined record of 55-13 ... Served as the team captain of both the freshman and junior varsity teams ... Plays her club volleyball for Sports Performance ... Voted the Hardest Worker on the U18 Red Team for Sports Performance ... Helped her club capture top honors in the U16 Big South National Qualifier, first in the Lone Start Classic in 2005 ... In 2006 Sports Performance U18 Red took first in the Club Division at the Northern Lights Qualifier ... Was a student government representative, a First Class Leader, and Literacy Center tutor ... Earned the Naperville National Honor Society Alumni Legacy Award.

Personal: Samantha Rae Trauth was born on Nov. 11, 1988 in Downers Grove, Illinois ... Daughter of Cheryl and Edward Trauth ... Has one brother ... Major is undelcared.